Thoughts and feelings are very important in Ayurvedic Medicine. To achieve healing, harmony must exist between mental and physical actions. Although mental health is not considered separate from physical health, there is a specific branch of Ayurveda called bhūtavidyā, which focuses on psychiatry and demonology.

Ayurveda believes there are three energies that create all life, including our physical (bodily) experience of life. They are vata, pitta, and kapha. Vata is the energy considered responsible for movement and creativity. Pitta is responsible for transformations, such as courage, digestion and metabolism. Kapha rules structures and affects things like growth, fluids, and compassion.

Life itself is considered the individual's experience of a Supreme spirit-energy. This all-encompassing energy is responsible for every physical and mental expression, thus making the separation of mind, body, and spirit impossible.